Archive for February, 2008

Here’s a free online list, recently updated, comparing 77 work at home customer service companies in the US and Canada!
They do a fine job of comparing them and it was just updated this month.
It’s important to recognize that work at home Customer Service jobs are NOT the same as telecommuting positions
which can exist in a [...]

WebWorkerDaily turned me on to this page.
If you use Gmail like I do, you’ll love it’s search capacity as well as large amount of free email storage space.
The problem when you’re searching for things is to narrow your search.
Here are some search terms that Gmail Search recognizes and how to use them to make your [...]

In a town ravaged by AIDs, widows, single moms, and needy moms unite in a microenterprise to survive. Several years into the project they find themselves thriving.
Their product? Recycling plastic grocery bags into pocketbooks.
From WORLD
The bags: colorful crocheted pocketbooks fashioned from recycled plastic grocery bags. Half of the revenue from each pocketbook goes to its [...]

These are prompted by the current economic woes that ARE NOT A RECESSION! (or maybe we are but it’s FORBIDDEN to use the word in an election cycle because it might make voters do irrational things like vote out bums.)
These are also good preparation for preparing to start a business.
From Bankrate.com
1. Eliminate the nonessentials
2. [...]

One reason there’s not more entrepreneurship and economic mobility into self employment is the area of health care.
Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and former Clinton White House dude suggested nationalized health care as the cure for that.
Is that a cure or not?
Here’s another perspective on that… a short film (@ 6 minutes) on [...]

Publicity Expert Bill Stoller sent out this email about how to get the first year’s membership for PRNewswire waived… a $195 value.
Bill is an expert on using publicity to build your business, so you’ll want to read this carefully, but it expires TONIGHT.
Anyway, you can always get a free sample of his publicity newsletter here [...]

Always wanted to start that Porta Potty business and name it “Here’s Johnny”?
About as soon as you print up your business cards and other signage, you may be hearing from a lawyer.
The stupidist things like “Fair and Balanced” are considered “intellectual property” and David Bollier’s book “Brand Name Bullies” chronicles the absurd lengths people will [...]

A friend from TN Sent this. I’m sure there’s a variant for your state. Rural areas are increasingly relying on telecommuting and self-employment to replace wages lost as industry moves outside the US. These monies tend to go to the well connected and those with time to fill out the mind numbing forms. As [...]

This just in from online marketing pro, Markus Allen:
Over the last 19 months, I’ve tested and successfully created a way to almost double my leads into subscribers…
… And all I did was to add a single line of HTML code to my existing home page.
Interested in knowing how I did it?
Watch this FREE video tutorial:
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From EmergencyEmail.org
Internet Alert: St. Valentine’s Day E-Card Carries Storm Worm Virus
If you unexpectedly receive a Valentine’s Day e-card, be careful. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus.
With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software (malware). The e-mail [...]